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Author : Shmuel Nitzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521897259
A study of the classical aggregation problems that arise in social choice theory, voting theory, and group decision-making under uncertainty.
Author : David Austen-Smith,Jeffrey S. Banks
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472087215
A definitive, comprehensive, and analytically sophisticated treatment of the theory of collective preference
Author : A.K. Sen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483294575
This book is concerned with the study of collective preference, in particular with the relationship between the objectives of social action and the preferences and aspirations of society's members. Professor Sen's approach is based on the assumption that the problem of collective choice cannot be satisfactorily discussed within the confines of economics. While collective choice forms a crucial aspect of economics, the subject pertains also to political science, the theory of the state, and to the theory of decision procedures. The author has therefore used material from these disciplines, plus philosophical aspects from ethics and the theory of justice.
Author : Scott L. Althaus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521527872
Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help survey researchers, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens better appreciate the pitfalls and possibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people s voice.
Author : John Craven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521310512
This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.
Author : Nicolaus Tideman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351950626
When one thinks about how collective decisions are made, voting is the method that comes naturally to mind. But other methods such as random process and consensus are also used. This book explores just what a collective decision is, classifies the methods of making collective decisions, and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Classification is the prelude to evaluation. What are the characteristics of a method of making collective decisions, the book asks, that permit us to describe a collective decision as good? The second part of the book is detailed exploration of voting: the dimensions in which voting situations differ, the origins and logic of majority rule, the frequency of cycles in voting, the Arrow and Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorems, criteria for ways of cutting through cycles and the application of these criteria to a variety of rules, voting over continuums, proportional representation, and voting rules that take account of intensities of preferences. Relatively unknown methods of voting give voting a much greater potential than is generally recognized. Collective Decisions and Voting is essential reading for everyone with an interest in voting theory and in how public choices might be made.
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001917785
Textbook on the relationship between the objectives of social policy and preferences and aspirations of members of society, with particular reference to collective decision making in respect of social welfare. Bibliography pp. 201 to 218 and statistical tables.
Author : Kotaro Suzumura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521122554
An examination of the phenomenon of social cooperation failure, even amongst a group of rational individuals.
Author : Adrian Van Deemen,Agnieszka Rusinowska
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642028656
Harrie de Swart is a Dutch logician and mathematician with a great and open int- est in applications of logic. After being confronted with Arrow’s Theorem, Harrie became very interested in social choice theory. In 1986 he took the initiative to start up a group of Dutch scientists for the study of social choice theory. This initiative grew out to a research group and a series of colloquia, which were held approximately every month at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands. The organization of the colloquia was in the hands of Harrie and under his guidance they became more and more internationally known. Many international scholars liked visiting the social choice colloquia in Tilburg and enjoyed giving one or more presentations about their work. They liked Harrie’s kindness and hospitality, and the openness of the group for anything and everything in the eld of social choice. The Social Choice Theory Group started up by Harrie consisted, and still c- sists, of scholars from several disciplines; mostly economics, mathematics, and (mathematical) psychology. It was set up for the study of and discussion about anything that had to do with social choice theory including, and not in the least, the supervision of PhD students in the theory. Members of the group were, among o- ers, Thom Bezembinder (psychologist), Hans Peters (mathematician), Pieter Ruys (economist), Stef Tijs (mathematician and game theorist) and, of course, Harrie de Swart (logician and mathematician).
Author : Keith M. Dowding,Desmond S. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018224142
Rational choice theory has gained considerable influence in politics and sociology over the past thirty years; the use of rational choice methods has proliferated in all areas of social inquiry. From the early days of formal proofs and unrealistic assumptions, rational choice is increasingly being used to model authentic situations and institutions. The collection of essays from leading British writers in the rational choice paradigm concentrates upon the two key aspects of rational choice: the role of preferences and institutions.
Author : norman schofield
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0792397118
In the last decade the techniques of social choice theory, game theory and positive political theory have been combined in interesting ways so as to pro vide a common framework for analyzing the behavior of a developed political economy. Social choice theory itself grew out of the innovative attempts by Ken neth Arrow (1951) and Duncan Black (1948, 1958) to extend the range of economic theory in order to deal with collective decision-making over public goods. Later work, by William Baumol (1952), and James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock (1962), focussed on providing an "economic" interpretation of democratic institutions. In the same period Anthony Downs (1957) sought to model representative democracy and elections while William Riker (1962) made use of work in cooperative game theory (by John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern, 1944) to study coalition behavior. In my view, these "rational choice" analyses of collective decision-making have their antecedents in the arguments of Adam Smith (1759, 1776), James Madison (1787) and the Marquis de Condorcet (1785) about the "design" of political institutions. In the introductory chapter to this volume I briefly describe how some of the current normative and positive aspects of social choice date back to these earlier writers.
Author : Peter C. Fishburn
Publisher : Princeton Legacy Library
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691646112
One fundamental premise of democratic theory is that social policy, group choice, or collective action should be based on the preferences of the individuals in the society, group, or collective. Using the tools of formal mathematical analysis, Peter C. Fishburn explores and defines the conditions for social choice and methods for synthesizing individuals' preferences. This study is unique in its emphasis on social choice functions, the general position that individual indifference may not be transitive, and the use of certain mathematics such as linear algebra. The text is divided into three main parts: social choice between two alternatives, which examines a variety of majority-like functions; simple majority social choice, which focuses on social choice among many alternatives when two-element feasible subset choices are based on simple majority; and a general study of aspects and types of social choice functions for many alternatives. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Kenneth J. Arrow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300186987
Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new foreword by Nobel laureate Eric Maskin, reintroduces Arrow's seminal book to a new generation of students and researchers."Far beyond a classic, this small book unleashed the ongoing explosion of interest in social choice and voting theory. A half-century later, the book remains full of profound insight: its central message, 'Arrow's Theorem, ' has changed the way we think."--Donald G. Saari, author of "Decisions and Elections: Explaining the Unexpected "
Author : Christopher P. Chambers,Federico Echenique
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107087804
The theory of revealed preference has a long, distinguished tradition in economics but lacked a systematic presentation of the theory until now. This book deals with basic questions in economic theory and studies situations in which empirical observations are consistent or inconsistent with some of the best known economic theories.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social choice
ISBN : 1617260002